Young Creatives

Young Company

HOME Young Company is a year-long theatre program for young people aged 14 –18 who are interested in making youth led theatre.

What do I need to know?

We meet every Tuesday evening during the school term at HOME between 18.00 – 20.00. You can find Manchester school term dates here.

You’ll be working with industry professionals to develop your acting skills whilst taking part in various projects (including cross-art projects) throughout the year.

Young Artist Studio

The HOME Young Artists Studio is a 12 month programme that includes practical visual arts workshops, open studio sessions and the chance to meet and work with practicing artists and industry professionals.

Participants also have the opportunity to visit artists’ studios and galleries, meet with the Visual Arts Programming team and create a group exhibition in the Inspire Gallery at HOME.

During this project, participants learn about curation, installation, commissioning, studio working, artist’s collectives, marketing and more as they are guided through the exhibition process.

The Young Artists Studio takes place across two Wednesday evenings per month.

Recruitment for Year 2 of the Young Artists Studio will be open from Fri 10 Jan 2025, with applications closing Fri 24 Jan. Young people, parents, and guardians can email lucy.follon@homemcr.org directly to register their interest and ask questions.

Young Film Collective

The HOME Young Film Collective is a 12 month programme for 18 – 25 year olds, based in Manchester and Greater Manchester. Twice a month the Young Film Collective meet for free film workshops covering everything from practical filmmaking skills, film theory, film reviewing, distribution and more.

The year long programme also includes film screenings, industry talks and will culminate in the making of a short film. The group are HOME’s resident Young Programmers, learning how to curate a film programme with guidance from HOME’s programming team, and they will programme up to 4 films to be shown in HOME’s cinemas.

This year’s cohort of 20 young film enthusiasts have recently joined us and they are so excited to get started on their projects, keep an eye out for screenings and events organised by the group.

INDRA

HOME’s INDRA Collective is a brand-new group to join the wider global INDRA network.
Taking place twice a month at HOME, It’s our aim to use art to make a change.

We discuss the latest issues that young people currently face and facilitate various cross art workshops (Theatre/Performance, Film, Visual Arts, Music…etc) to support our responses.

This group is advertised for anyone aged 14-18 who wants to use their art to make a difference. The INDRA group is currently taking a break, but will be back in October 2023.

Young Identity

Young Identity are HOME’s Resident Artists. Young Identity have a long history of delivering dynamic poetry and spoken word workshops for young people at cultural venues and events across Manchester. As Resident Artists, the group create work in response to HOME’s programme of film, theatre and visual art.

BFI Film Academy

BFI Film Academy is a flagship film project at HOME for 16 – 19 year olds who are passionate about film. HOME is the North West lead partner for the Film Academy, overseeing five Film Academies in partnership with the British Film Institute. The North West Film Academies will run in partnership with FACT in Liverpool, Aunty Social in Blackpool, Touchstones in Rochdale and Signal Film & Media in Cumbria.

Each academy will have the opportunity to work with industry professionals, attend practical and online workshops, meet new people and gain an insight into areas of the industry you might not even know existed. Each cohort will get the chance to make a short film which will be screened at HOME cinema in February 2025. Find out more information about the North West film academies here.

HOME’s Film Academy will run from Oct 24 – Feb 25 for 20 young people. Participants will work with a range of film industry professionals learning everything about film from commissioning, production, post production, distribution and more.

Alongside this, they will attend film theory sessions, industry advice sessions and complete your Silver Arts Award.

Applications for the Film Academy open every August and close in September and it is completely free to attend, with travel reimbursed and bursaries available for additional expenses. If you want more information, please contact filmyoungcreatives@homemcr.org